Houston Innovation District
Houston Innovation District | |
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Project Information | |
Project Title | Houston Innovation District |
Owner | Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe |
Start Date | 9/20/2017 |
Deadline | 10/27/2017 |
Primary Billing | |
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Has project status | Active |
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General Description
Mayor of Houston has asked us to make recommendations about how to create an innovation district in Houston
- Go through patent data, find people with patents
- Find people who have done R&D work
- Carve up the world of innovative people in terms of data
- Find their needs
- Turn it into some sort of office space requirement
- Try to find where this office space would be, what it would look like
Resources to pull from
Houston Entrepreneurship has info about:
- Start ups
- Accelerators/Incubators
- Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
- Small Business
- VC
We would ideally have data about:
- Patents in Houston
- R&D in Houston
- Factors relating to best Innovation Districts:
- Networking Assets
- Gathering spaces- shared meeting spaces
- Accessibility- close proximity
- Hip vibes
- Capital Stack
- Equity
- VC
- Tax credits, government aid
- Networking Assets